Re: ssh-ing in inside private network
On Thu 31 Mar 2016 at 13:28:57 +0200, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 12:43:49PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > I want all the computers on my private network to be able to shh into each
> > other. In Jessie, what do I have to do where in what config file?
> > Presumably some port is shut??
>
> 0. Each computer should be able to "see" port 22 (ssh) of each other's
> (I'm assuming you go with the default port for ssh, this can be
> changed, but I wouldn't do that without some reason)
>
> 1. Each computer should have an SSH server running (on Debian that would
> be package openssh-server: in Debian it has priority "optional": I'd
> double-check that it's installed)
>
> 3. To connect, you need also an openssh-client (since this has priority
> "standard" n Debian, chances are that it's there already)
> You can check all these three by trying from each host "ssh user@the-other-host"
> and studying the responses.
>
> Since your question was pretty general, I preferred to go with a terse,
> bird's perspective answer. Let's tackle the details when they come up.
There is also dropbear as a lightweight SSH2 server and client. Using
it in preference to openssh is useful for resource constrained machines.
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